FTC-Leagues & Tournaments

UPDATED: OCTOBER 10, 2018
- LEAGUE and NON-LEAGUE SIGN-UP WILL LAUNCH ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 at 5:00 PM.
- FOR LEAGUES: Please sign up prior to the Oct 15 for Leagues, as several League Meet Zero events are happening in October.
- DEADLINE TO SIGN UP FOR FTC Non- Leagues will be October 31.
- Teams will be assigned to leagues and events on a first come, first serve basis on a daily basis starting October 11.
- All teams must be nationally registered and paid prior to their first league meet or November 30th, which ever comes first.
- To learn about the differences between leagues and non-leagues and see an event schedule of dates/times/places, scroll down and read our information.
- blog post with additional info
- NEW!!!!! CHECK LINK to check if your team has 1) Paid National Registration, 2) has submitted an FTC OREGON Event Sign up 3) if you FTC Oregon Event Payment was received
- PLEASE READ THE ONLINE FORM TO SEE ALL OF THE QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU TRY TO FILL IT OUT.
SIGN UP LINK IS NOW LIVE —- CLICK HERE
PAYMENT INFORMATION
- Please note: Starting in the 2018-2019 season, teams who do not submit event payments by the deadline will not be eligible to request a discounted fee and will be sent an invoice at the Full Cost of Program fee.
  - League Meets & League QT (all events included) – sliding scale $400 (full cost of program) – $200 (minimum for those in financial need).
    - All Payments must be in by October 31st – Must have credit card, check or the Purchase Order.
    - LEAGUE – Pay by Credit Card
    - LEAGUE – Pay By Check –
    - LEAGUE – Pay by Purchase Order followed by check
  - NON-LEAGUE Qualifying Tournament (one event) – sliding scale $300 (full cost of program) – $150 (minimum for those in financial need)
    - All Payments must be in by November 16th – Must have credit card, check or the Purchase Order.
    - NON-LEAGUE – Pay by Credit Card
    - NON-LEAGUE –Pay by Check
    - NON-LEAGUE – Pay by Purchase Order followed by check

Tournaments: League and Non-League Events

FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon is a hybrid region offering two pathways to participation in tournament events. Both League and Non-League paths advance to the FIRST Tech Challenge Super Qualifiers and FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Championship. Teams that perform well at the FTC Oregon State Championship may advance to Houston for the FIRST World Championships.

2018-2019 FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Event Calendar – overview

FTC Oregon League Information

League Meets – October 10 – December 16
League Meet days are established by each individual league to best meet the needs of the teams in the league. Leagues Meets will be held 3 – 4 times between October 10 – December 16th. League Meets are ~4 hours in length and include inspection and 5 matches. Usually it consists of League Meet 0 (workshops/no points count) and 3 League Meets (best 10 matches from 3 league meets are carried forward to the League Qualifying Tournament). Teams compete in a League Qualifying Tournament in January and a percentage of teams advance to Super-Qualifier Weekend. League Teams do not carry any points to SQ Weekend.

FTC Oregon League pages – Schedule, updates, messages to teams from League Managers, rankings

Non- League Qualifying Tournament Information
Non- League teams design, build and program their robot in the fall at team meeting and prepare to attend one Qualifying Tournament in January with formal inspection, judging, matches and awards. A percentage of teams will advance to Super-Qualifier weekend in February.

Philomath HS – January 19 – Philomath, Oregon (near Corvallis)
Philomath HS – January 20 – Philomath, Oregon (near Corvallis)
Tigard HS – January 27 – Tigard, Oregon (SW of Portland)

League and Non-League Qualifying Tournaments
All events are one day tournaments that will occur on weekends in January. Teams compete in ONE Qualifying Tournament.
League and Non-League Qualifying Tournaments include formal inspection, judging session, 5 matches, alliance selection, elimination round and awards/advancement ceremony.
FIRST Dean’s List Semi-Finalists will be interviewed at League and Non-League Qualifying Tournaments.

Super-Qualifier Weekend (by advancement only)
Teams will advance from League/Non-League Qualifying Tournaments to FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Super-Qualifier Weekend.
There are 4 separate tournaments; each with 24 teams. Includes formal inspection, judging session, 5 matches, alliance selection, elimination round and awards/advancement ceremony
Super-Qualfier Weekend will be held Feb 9 and 10.
2018-2019 Locations: SQ-Delta – Saturday, Feb 9, Roseburg HS, SQ-Theta – Saturday, Feb 10, Evergreen HS, SQ-Pi – Sunday, February 11

FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Championship (by advancement only)
~50% of teams will advance from the Super-Qualifiers to the FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Championship. This is a two-day event. 48 teams advance to the Championship. It is a two-division (Timber and Tech) event.
FTC Oregon Championship will be held February 23 or 24 or March 2 & 3. Location TBD.

FIRST Tech Challenge West Super-Regional – this event has been discontinued. Teams will advance from the FTC Oregon State Championship to FTC World Championship

FIRST World Championship (by advancement only)
FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship: Houston is part of the FIRST World Championship (for all four FIRST programs). 160 teams from 20+ countries compete.
FIRST World Championship is held at the Georgia Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, April 17 – 20, 2019. In 2017-2018 Oregon sent 10 teams to the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship.

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